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- 1 2 Dhoest, Alexander (2004). De verbeelde gemeenschap: 50 jaar Vlaamse tv-fictie en de constructie van een nationale identiteit [The represented community: 50 years of Flemish television fiction and the construction of a national identity] (in Dutch). p. 150. ISBN 9789058673749.
- ↑ "Prijs van de Kijker 2006" [2006 Award of the Viewer] (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 October 2016.